Jeremiah 50:10

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh.

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שֹׁלְלֶ֥יהָ

shâlal

H7997

“plundering · her”

Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular

Appears 16× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Ruth 2:16

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 2399 , 2400

(Qal) to draw out - to spoil, plunder, take spoil - (Qal) to spoil, plunder - (Hithpolel) to be spoiled, be plundered

About this verse

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8: words
8: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is שֹׁלְלֶ֥יהָ to plunder H7997 — appearing just 16 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שֹׁלְלֶ֥יהָ to plunder H7997 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
5 nouns

Verb forms

וְהָיְתָ֥ה Qal · Sequential Perfect
שֹׁלְלֶ֥יהָ Qal · Participle Active
יִשְׂבָּ֖עוּ Qal · Imperfect

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Jeremiah 50:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Jeremiah 25:12 It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.
Isaiah 33:4 Your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap on it.
Isaiah 33:23 Your rigging is untied; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.
Isaiah 45:3 and I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
Jeremiah 27:7 All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.
Revelation 17:16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Jeremiah 50:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְהָיְתָ֥ה כַשְׂדִּ֖ים לְשָׁלָ֑ל כָּל שֹׁלְלֶ֥יהָ יִשְׂבָּ֖עוּ נְאֻם יְהוָֽה

Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Structure differs

In the Septuagint, Jeremiah is about an eighth shorter than the Hebrew and arranges its material differently — the Oracles Against the Nations (Hebrew chapters 46–51) appear in the middle of the Greek book, after 25:13. Because the chapter and verse boundaries do not line up, a verse-for-verse comparison with the Hebrew is not shown.

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Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וּתְהֵי אֲרַע כַּסְדָאֵי לְבִזָא כָּל בָּזְזָהָא יִסְבְּעוּן אֲמַר יְיָ:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Jeremiah 50:10 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Jer 50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

Ver. 10. And Chaldea shall be a spoil.] See on Jer 50:9.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Shall be made rich thereby.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 10. Chaldea shall be a spoil] She has been a spoiler, and she shall be spoiled. They had destroyed Judea, God's heritage; and now God shall cause her to be destroyed.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Calvin's Commentaries

Here he mentions the effect of the victory, that he might more fully confirm what he had said; for it is sometimes the case, that they who are conquered flee to their cities. The country is indeed laid waste, but the enemies depart with their spoils. But the Prophet here says, that the whole of Chaldea would be plundered: he further adds, that the plunderers would be satiated, as though he had said, “The enemies shall not only seize on all sides, as it sometimes happens, on what may fall into their hands, but they shall heap together all the treasures of Chaldea until they shall be satiated.” He means, in short, that Chaldea would be wholly emptied; for these two things ought to be deemed as set in opposition the one to the other, — that the enemies would be filled to satiety, and that the Chaldeans would be reduced to poverty. Then the satiety of which the Prophet speaks, implies that the Chaldeans would be brought to extreme penury and want. It follows, —

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(10) Chaldea.—The same word is used as for Chaldæans, but it is treated as the name of the country, and is therefore joined with a verb in the feminine singular.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

10–12. Chaldaea shall be spoiled, because it rejoices in spoiling Israel.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And Chaldea shall be a spoil,.... The land of the Chaldeans, as the Targum, should become a spoil to the enemy, and be plundered of all its riches and treasures; not only Babylon principally, but the whole country it was the metropolis of:

all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord; for though spoilers are generally insatiable, yet so great should be the riches found in Babylon and in Chaldea, that they should have enough, and desire no more; see Rev 18:17.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, “Chaldaea shall become a spoil ... for thou wast glad, thou exultedst, ye plunderers of mine heritage.”

Because ye are grown fat - Rather, for thou leapedst, skippedst as an animal does when playing.

As the heifer at grass - Or, as a heifer threshing. When threshing cattle were allowed to eat their fill Deu 25:4, and so grew playful.

Bellow as bulls - Better as in the margin.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Satisfied with spoil and plunder, for Babylon and Chaldea was at that time one of the richest places in those parts of the world. She was abundant in treasure, Jer 51:13.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Satisfied - Satisfied with spoil and plunder.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâlal (“to plunder”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word shâlal carries the sense “to plunder.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Ruth 2:16, which shares the word «to plunder», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וְהָיְתָ֥ה» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.